Wednesday, July 30

I could not wait for long time to write this post, continuing what I had started in my previous post Career Steps: Tell what "you" are to the world?many might be already thinking of implementing/doing few of the mentioned points. But how you do it makes you really different, isn't it!

Register into relevant/interesting groups/forums & be a watchdog there.

Actively take part in the technical talks/sessions.

Try to excel in particular concept and be ready to show your capability. (When u r ready, opportunities sure to come!)

Keep shouting/discussing at community groups/forums.

Be attentive and ready to extend your hands to the people with doubts.

Show you professionalism.

Start socializing.

Maintain your personal pages/blogs/websites.

These are just few of the ways that I can immediately think of and I welcome all to suggest more ways if they have any...

Sunday, July 27

I was just recollecting how the internet had changed the people, business, culture, thought process and the list can go on and on... But I am just amazed the ways and means of showcasing, marketing one about their skillset, work capabilites and portrait themselves to this wide world.Websites: where you pile up lots and loads of content in form of pages and users/visitors can go through leisurely.

Weblogs (Blogs) : Later moved to weblogs, popularly known as blogs, for more interactive, updated content.

Micro-blogging: We are now even ahead of blogs with micro-blogging concept. Users can post limited text about what they are doing?

What caught my attention is how dynamically we are becoming and more dynamically we are able to develop the software tools that can keep up our dynamism, agility, communication, information gathering. So also the market coping up with new trends, millions of websites, later came the revolution through blogs (wordpress, typepad, blogger...) and now the micro-blogging popularised by twitter, jaiku. This micro-blogging became so famous that it influenced well established web applications/products to embed this feature into their own systems.

Thursday, July 17

Twitter, there might be very few web browsers who does not know about twitter. For the benefit of those few, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates.Twitter used to go down due to the page views load. There is been lot of discussions, questions regarding the scalability of the Twitter. And I too faced many people asking the scalability, capability of the Ruby on Rails (technology with which twitter was built) in building the web applications.

Twitter started as a side project and blew up fast, going from 0 to millions of page views within a few terrifying months. Early design decisions that worked well in the small melted under the crush of new users chirping tweets to all their friends. Web darling Ruby on Rails was fingered early for the scaling problems, but Blaine Cook, Twitter's lead architect, held Ruby blameless:

For us, it’s really about scaling horizontally - to that end, Rails and Ruby haven’t been stumbling blocks, compared to any other language or framework. The performance boosts associated with a “faster” language would give us a 10-20% improvement, but thanks to architectural changes that Ruby and Rails happily accommodated, Twitter is 10000% faster than it was in January.

Hope that clears some air around twitter discussions. Interestingly, there are quite a number of applications that are build around twitter gaining popularity.twittervision, summize (twitter search) to name few. Twitter was made very handy with lots useful tools/extensions on every platform that you can think of. From desktop to iphone users, the gadgets are available here. I too tweet here!Few slides that comes handy when you want to speak/read, how the scaling of twitter is getting improved.View/Download From Slideshare.Scaling-twitter by BlaineScaling-twitter @ railsconf-2007

Friday, July 11

This video show how smart people utilized the Internet Technology bubble. And the interesting thing is we still have lots of scope. As the pioneers set the stage and now it is very simple for me and you to reach heights soooooooooooooon. Just sharpen your brains and we can be there. Well I towards this elite group.

There are many bests in this video!One that caught my immediate attention is Revenue/Property Comparison between Facebook and Ford. Grab wat u liked here and happy weekend :)

Friday, July 4

A quick fix for this extension. The latest version will have the options set in context menu(i.e, on mouse right click) and under Tools menu options. The button from the status bar is removed now. Thanks to Prashant for his feedback and I will implement the suggestions in future releases.

Download ExtensionWe browse umpteen number of sites/pages across the internet everyday. If you like them and you want to keep the selection as startup pages for your browser (FF), you have to change the options manually.

I thought (as most users feel!) it was not convenient and so I ventured to make it as simple extension. Well if you are like me then, "Set as StartUp Pages" is one such simple and profound extension which would let you set the startup pages with a simple button click from your status bar.